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Hercules and the King of Portugal - Icons of Masculinity and Nation in Calderon's Spain (Hardcover)
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Hercules and the King of Portugal - Icons of Masculinity and Nation in Calderon's Spain (Hardcover)
Series: New Hispanisms
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Hercules and the King of Portugal investigates how representations
of masculinity figure in the fashioning of Spanish national
identity, scrutinizing ways that gender performances of two early
modern male icons-Hercules and King Sebastian-are structured to
express enduring nationhood. The classical hero Hercules features
prominently in Hispanic foundational fictions and became intimately
associated with the Hapsburg monarchy in the early sixteenth
century. King Sebastian of Portugal (1554-78), both during his
lifetime and after his violent death, has been inserted into his
own land's charter myth, even as competing interests have adapted
his narratives to promote Spanish power. The hybrid oral and
written genre of poetic Spanish theater, as purveyor and shaper of
myth, was well situated to stage and resolve dilemmas relating both
to lineage determined by birth and performance of masculinity, in
ways that would ideally uphold hierarchy. Dian Fox's ideological
analysis exposes how the two icons are subject to political
manipulations in seventeenth-century Spanish theater and other
media. Fox finds that officially sanctioned and sometimes popularly
produced narratives are undercut by dynamic social and gendered
processes: "Hercules" and "Sebastian" slip outside normative
discourses and spaces to enact nonnormative behaviors and
unreproductive masculinities.
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